The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-12-10

this was a hard world to live in and
he guessed he would kill himself
and go to hades and try it there"
A project is on foot at Romney, in
which Col. r. w. Monroe and others
are interested, to build narrow
gauge railroad from that place south
east to McCarty's Extract works
distant about seventeen miles. 1t
will open up part of the county in
which there are enormous quantities
of timber and bark. The cost would
be about 81. 800 per mile ~.
At a recent meeting of the Gov
errors Guards, of Charleston, the
name of the company was changed
to the Kanawha Riflemen. The flag
won by the old Kanawha Rifemen
company in the competitive drill at
Huntington some eight or ten years
ago, under the command of Capt. C.
P. Snyder, will be presented to the
new company by the captain of the
old company organization.
The last Legislature appropriated
$4,000 for the support of lunatics
in jails for the year ending Septem-
Der Both. 1887, and $4,000 for the
year ending September 30th, 1888.
Auditor Duffy has now notified the
Sheriffs of the State by letter dated
November 7, that these appropria-
tions are already exhausted, and
that no claims therefor will be paid
until provision be made by the Leg
islature
West Virginia is bound to come
out on top. The coal fields of Penn
sylvania are not everlasting In it's
natural state West Virginia is to-
day the richest State in the Union;
her coal fields are unsurpassed; and
underlying the soil is an abundance
of iron ore of a superior quality, val
liable timber abounds; and for graz
ing purposes West Virginia's hills
are second to none. Yea. verify, we
are destined to become great State
Lieutenant Baldwin, one of the
Eureka detectives, arrested Noddy
Moses, in the mountains back of
Woods, Putnam county, few days
ago, and placed him in jail. Moses
had piled cross-ties on the K. & o.
Railroad track for the purpose, as
it is alleged, of wrecking the pay
car on the road Instead of the pay
car, Superintendent Sweeney's car
and engine, carrying number of
the officials over the road on tour
of inspection, came near being wreck
ed.
The last session of the Grand Jury
of Wood county returned three in
dictments against Road Contractor
Writ r. Neale, brother-i n-law of
County Commissioner Gus Kellar,
for fraudulent transactions in the
letting of road contracts. Similar
complaints have been made against
some Of the other surveyors in the
county, and those in possession of
facts should appear before the next
Grand jury and state them. In
some cases no contracts were let at
all. .x.
The bell on the Catholic Church
at Berkeley Springs has been taken
down to be replaced by larger one
There is an interesting history con-
nected with this bell. Rumor has
it that it has passed through ship
wreck and fire. 1t bears the in
scription: "Fait Par Jean Bazin,
Anantee, l776." For many years
the bell was used on the Catholic
Church at Martinsburg, and after
the late war was taken to Berkeley
Springs, where it has been in service
ever since.
The papers contain frequent no.
tices of the return of demoralized
emigrant parties from the far West,
who had been induced to go there
by the representations of land agents
and town boomers in that country.
In almost every case they are i'm
poverished and in many sick and in
distress, and in all, glad to get back
again where they started from.
There should be heavy penalty
against deception in such matters,
and people should always think
twice before believing much they
hear from the emigration agents and
the like.
A dastardly crime was perpetrated
near Buckhannon. a few nights ago.
Cyrus Hinkle's barn was fred by
an incendiary and completely de-
stroyed. Three horses and six milk
cows were burned, together with
hay, farming implements, &c. The
fire was discovered about two o clock
in the morning and had at that time
made such Roadway as to be beyond
all control, the heat being too great
to admit of approach to the burning
building Tracks of two men to and
from the place were traced and
measured, and every effort will be
made to bring the offending parties
to justice. We are informed that a
reward of 500 for the apprehension
of the guilty parties will be offered
by the county court.